Green Bank is in the middle of something called the National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13-thousand square mile area where radio transmissions are strictly restricted. Otherwise, the work done here would be difficult at best.

“It would be like trying to listen to music with a jackhammer nearby,” said Lockman.

The largest telescope here towers over the countryside.

It’s 500 feet tall and has a dish big enough to fit two football fields side by side and still have room for bleachers.

Each of the dish’s individual panels are the size of a dining room table, and there are 2,000 of them.

“We need that large collection area because the signals we’re trying to pick up are almost unbelievably faint,” said Lockman.

Lockman is the principal scientist of the telescope and says they study a variety of things.

“It can be as varied as studying the interior of the planet to looking at quasars,” said Lockman.

While that kind of discovery may rock the world, for now, life here in Green Bank remains quiet.

It has a population of about 145, and some people are actually moving there.

People who believe they’re electro-sensitive and think cell phone signals and Wi-Fi are making them sick, are among Green Bank’s newest residents. The sickness is controversial in the medical world.

While people may wonder how residents of Green Bank and the surrounding area manage without cellphones, many people who live there actually relish the idea that life in this area of West Virginia is about all about an easier time.

“It’s when we all played outside, and you didn’t sit on the computer all the time,” said Chestnut. “I would not change this place for anything.”